Hard Drive in Firewire 800 Enclosure

[wicktron]

Will a hard drive (WD 2500JB) completely saturate a Firewire 800 line?

 

[Sheriff]

It will use all the bandwith that Firewire has to offer as well as IDE

 

[igowerf]

100MB/sec? :Q

 

[LethalWolfe]

A 7200RPM IDE drive won't saturate a good FW400 enclosure in real world use.


Lethal